Fayose said the police authority must retract the comment and tender unreserved apology to Ortom, the people of Benue State and the Nigeria Governors Forum
Browsing: Governor Samuel Ortom
Moshood, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said this on a Channels Television programme, which also featured the Chief Press Secretary to Ortom, Terver Akase, leading to a shouting match between the two
The police launched the operation after series of attack by suspected herdsmen in the state, which had led to the death of many, including a police officer
The demand of the government was in reaction to the alleged claim by Idris that the killings in Benue State was instigated by the state’s grazing law
A source at the closed door grilling of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, by the Senate Committee on Police disclosed this on Friday
In a press statement issued in Abuja Saturday, the Benue State groups further demanded that should Buhari fail to sack the Defence Minister, the National Assembly to should immediately investigate the President’s role in the Benue State killings with the view to possibly impeaching him if found wanting in the performance of his duties by failing to avert the killings of the Benue State people after several complaints and official report by the State Governor, Samuel Ortom, and the three socio-cultural organisations
Herdsmen had on January 1, 2018 killed over 73 persons in Benue State, with the trend still said to be continuing
The group during a rally held at the Unity Fountain, Abuja on Thursday, threatened to occupy the US Embassy and other places if nothing was done urgently by the Nigerian Government and the international community to bring Governors Samuel Ortom of Benue State and Darius Ishaku of Taraba State to book
Many other people were said to have been injured in the Taraba State incidents, while scores of other people were displaced after their homes were torched by the invaders
The governor spoke on Thursday in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, when the Benue Youth Prayer Group and National Union of Road Transport Workers, Benue State chapter paid him a condolence visit
The survey also found that all debt-ravaged states that collected the Federal Government intervention fund as well as the Paris Club loan refund are still owing some categories of workers salary arrears
President Buhari has promised justice, but it’s hard to believe him after watching that Saudi Arabia video. It’s hard to believe he’ll deliver justice after he told a delegation of Benue elders to his office to restrain “your people” and in the name of God, “to accommodate your countrymen”
In a statement by his spokesman, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo said it will be a terrible falsehood to suggest he was ever informed by the Governor or anyone else of the imminence of the killing of citizens of our country in those or any other local governments in Benue State.
According to available information, the President will be meeting in Aso Rock with some leaders from Benue State over the recent killings in the state
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Makurdi residents took to the streets in peacefully protest, over the killings in Guma and Logo local Government councils.
Unongo said this on Thursday during the mass burial of 73 persons killed by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State
Al-Makura, while making a presentation at a stakeholders’ meeting convened by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, in Lafia on Thursday, described the allegation as “grievous, unacceptable and terribly speculative”
Ortom said the suggestions were not acceptable to Benue State people
The Spokesperson of the 13 Brigade, Captain Kayode Owolabi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Calabar, Cross River State
Ortom disclosed this to State House correspondents after he briefed the President on the security situation in the state, since the New Year killing of many people in the state